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by ponker 6y ago
You're focusing on the wrong stuff like the monitor and the webcam. This is a completely open computing platform... a Chromebook is a thin client for Google services. They couldn't be more different.
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by ponker 6y ago
The fact is that cost of compute is only a serious fraction of revenue for a small percent of companies. Those should worry about compute — the rest should focus their attention elsewhere.
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by ponker 6y ago
Well it is, because Europe is able to get their labor much cheaper, and those guys ain’t starving.
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s interesting that nobody really talks this way about anything other than wealth, even though there are many things other than wealth that people desire — and it’s just because wealth is easy to confiscate and transfer. I’d like to be be
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by ponker 6y ago
I wonder how the think tank people are dealing with the current administration. I’m sure at all levels below the top it functions normally and can ingest policy papers etc., but then the boss applies a random number generator to all outputs
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by ponker 6y ago
Yes
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by ponker 6y ago
Well measuring it exactly is impossible but relatively is easy. For example Tamil has been much more static than Greek which has been much more static than English over the last 1000 years.
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by ponker 6y ago
Isn’t Facebook evidence enough that “connecting everyone” isn’t necessarily a good thing?
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by ponker 6y ago
Well very old languages like Tamil have a very ancient person with whom a modern speaker could have a mutually intelligible conversation. An English speaker could not speak English with someone from 1000 years ago but a Tamil speaker could.
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by ponker 6y ago
They have, that is exactly what turned Donald Trump into the President, despite the fact that he is so obviously a moron.
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by ponker 6y ago
If you’re in the US looks like you have fully integrated and fit right in!
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by ponker 6y ago
My father fully integrated but does all of those things. If all of your friends are from your culture, if you watch TV only from your own culture, etc. you’re not fully integrated. If you do the host country stuff AND your native stuff you
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by ponker 6y ago
My opinion: admittance to a country is a gift. Don’t give it to people who won’t fully integrate.
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by ponker 6y ago
The Tesla model is the iPhone model... you pay good money for the device, but it remains in the full control of the manufacturer. As Apple has had more time to demonstrate, this model has advantages and disadvantages. If you don’t want this
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by ponker 6y ago
Personally I find the idea of asking a friend to post a self-promotional link without disclosing the affiliation, because I'm too "humble" to post it... quite the opposite of humble.
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by ponker 6y ago
Almost everyone you see who has a personal brand that is popular on the conference circuit is willing and able to do this kind of self promotion. It’s not for me, but I don’t see it as objectionable because I see it as part and parcel of th
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by ponker 6y ago
I think your comment is behind the state of the art. I bought a house with a beautiful garden in the backyard. I didn't know what any of this stuff was or how to take care of it. The app my wife got (not sure what it is) got all of the
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by ponker 6y ago
I remember once I had a protected left but saw the car coming (hundreds of feet out) and didn't like the look on his face (which was barely visible), like he was too into his music. I didn't take the left and the guy flew through
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by ponker 6y ago
Why would you expect approval voting to yield different results than FPTP?
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by ponker 6y ago
Many athletic all-time greats have been haughty jerks. I wouldn’t say that’s any evidence for or against the high score being authentic.
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by ponker 6y ago
"Liberate" doesn't bother China who Apple is heavily reliant on?
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by ponker 6y ago
The broader point is that the politicians’ power is dependent entirely on the success or failure of their public theatrics, so public theatrics is what they seek and what satisfies them.
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by ponker 6y ago
The tech giants have definitely benefited from US politics devolving completely into Culture War. With the politicians completely uninterested in genuinely learning, deliberating, and acting in the shared interest of the country, the corpor
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by ponker 6y ago
Nobody really has any idea how much money it takes to influence political agendas. All the corporate money in the world couldn't stop Donald Trump from getting elected and instituting his tariff, but in other cases very small amounts o
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by ponker 6y ago
The courts will decide whether Amazon is right. One totally reasonable outcome might be that Amazon and other vendors will not be allowed to use the word "Purchase" for content that you do not own outright in perpetuity with right
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by ponker 6y ago
It would be good if a certification organization or insurance company would validate IoT hardware, saying "this will be supported with these features at this price point for at least N years, or will refund you the original purchase pr
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by ponker 6y ago
With the basic list of components offered I wonder if it might be cheaper to put literally all of them on a single PCB or a couple with harnesses.
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by ponker 6y ago
Why not video?
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by ponker 6y ago
Can’t Believe Google didn’t refund the $300.
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by ponker 6y ago
They should just have to buy back the hardware if they don’t support it anymore, for some reasonable time frame of support (10 years?)

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